DAY 9
Tony Dungy
Tony Dungy is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and earned Super Bowl rings both as a player with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and as a coach with the Indianapolis Colts.
He is currently a broadcaster with NBC’s Football Night in America, and has written a number of books, including his memoir, Quiet Strength, which is a #1 New York Times bestseller.
He and his wife, Lauren, are the parents of 11 children, and live in Florida.
Quotables
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“What you choose to do is never going to be as important as how you do it.” @tonydungy #theartofplayingwell
“You can be the greatest whatever but if you’re doing it for the wrong reasons and in the wrong way, it’s not going to be meaningful.” @tonydungy #theartofplayingwell
My first talk to the players when I got the Bucs’ job was that we want to win a Super Bowl, but we want to do it the right way. You should be role models for every child in this city, and that’s just as important as how many games we win. @tonydungy #theartofplayingwell
“Third grade reading levels determine so much of where we go in life, so Lauren’s thought was that we need to volunteer to read to 2nd graders and tell them how much fun it is to read. So every Thursday we do.” @tonydungy #theartofplayingwell
A coach called and asked me if he needed to change his approach now that he was a head coach. I told him he doesn’t—he can still get the respect of his players being who he is, doing it Just the way he’s always done it. @tonydungy #theartofplayingwell
You can be an effective leader with whatever personality is authentic to you. @tonydungy #leadership #theartofplayingwell
You don’t have to alter your character to get ahead and do well. @tonydungy #character #theartofplayingwell
In my first job, Chuck Noll said not to make football our whole life, that we had to get satisfaction and fulfillment in other ways. @tonydungy #priorities #theartofplayingwell
Chuck Noll not only won four Super Bowls, he transformed a lot of lives and took a lot of men to greater heights on and off the field. And to me, that’s what coaching is all about. @tonydungy #priorities #theartofplayingwell
There’s a time and place for everything. @tonydungy #priorities #theartofplayingwell
We developed a category on our draft board, DNDC, Do Not Draft (because of) Character. @tonydungy #character #theartofplayingwell
We stuck with DNDC (Do Not Draft – Character) even when some people wavered at the good players we wouldn’t draft. It became a principle for us and we avoided a lot of headaches with it. @tonydungy #character #theartofplayingwell